Call for new Stackage Curator

December 19, 2016

On behalf of the Stackage curators, I'm putting out a call for a
volunteer to join the team. The Stackage curators are responsible for
the day-to-day management of the Stackage project: merging PRs,
managing builds, reporting bounds issues and build or test failures,
and every once in a while making a judgement call on when to bump to
newer package versions.

The curator team currently consists of Adam Bergmark, Dan Burton, Jens
Petersen, and me. The processes we follow are documented in
the curator guide. We
each rotate shifts, taking one week at a time on duty. Overall, the
workload is light and straightforward: usually less than 30 minutes a
day.

We're putting out this call for a new volunteer since we've been
running as a four-person show for a while now, and want to make sure
we're getting our processes well documented enough for newcomers to
easily come up to speed on the process. While we are currently asking
for just one new addition to the team, if there are multiple
enthusiastic candidates, we will definitely consider expanding the
team further.

Joining the curator team is a great way to both contribute to the
Haskell ecosystem, and to become more familiar with how things
work. You'll also get an opportunity to interact (albeit in brief
discussions) with many package maintainers in the Haskell community.

If you're interested in applying, please send a message to the
Stackage mailing list
or, if you prefer applying privately,
send me an email and I'll pass the
message along to the rest of the team.